Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.